Water & Wastewater Treatment News For The Petroleum & Refining Industry

31. UWC Helps LNG Plant Save Water And Lower Costs
    1/4/2018

    A Middle Eastern liquid natural gas (LNG) facility can conserve around 3 million gallons of treated water daily by following recommendations from a water operations audit conducted by United Water Consultants (UWC), which was completed in early 2017. The lower water demand would also decrease the plant’s seawater desalination costs.

32. 2017 Innovation Award Awarded To AquaSource Technologies Corporation
    1/2/2018

    The Pittsburgh Business Times (PBT) introduced the Innovation Awards in 2017, a program that recognizes the companies that made extraordinary advances in their respective fields, challenging conventional thinking.

33. WaterToken Cleans The World One Drop At A Time
    12/23/2017

    Genesis Research & Technology Group, the leader in chemical-free clean water, will start pre-registration on Dec. 28, 2017, for the highly publicized ICO WaterToken.

34. OMV Petrom And WABAG: Completion Of The New Produced Water Treatment Plant For The Suplacu Oilfield In Romania
    12/21/2017

    WABAG Water Services SRL, Romania, a subsidiary of the Vienna-based VA TECH WABAG GmbH, has built a new and innovative plant for eco-friendly treatment of the produced water resulting from oil production for the country’s largest oil and gas group.

35. Directa Plus And GSP SA Collaborate To Evaluate Oil & Gas Applications For Grafysorber
    12/14/2017

    Directa Plus plc, a producer and supplier of graphene-based products for use in consumer and industrial markets, announces that it has entered into a collaboration with GSP SA

36. EPA Requires Granite Rock To Control Stormwater Runoff, Improve Oil Spill Prevention At California Facilities
    12/13/2017

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Granite Rock Company over Clean Water Act violations at three of its road materials manufacturing and recycling facilities in Northern California.

37. MGX Minerals And PurLucid Treatment Solutions Announce Initial Commissioning Of Rapid Lithium Recovery System, Deployment Site And Water Processing Contract
    12/6/2017

    MGX Minerals Inc. (“MGX” or the “Company”) is pleased to report that engineering partner PurLucid Treatment Solutions (“PurLucid”) has partially commissioned the commercial-scale NFLi5 lithium recovery system at its new manufacturing facility in Calgary, Alberta.

38. Mid-Atlantic Residents See Ocean Health As Major Economic Issue
    12/5/2017

    Eight in 10 residents of Mid-Atlantic states believe the ocean and beaches are important to their economies, including 95% of those living in coastal communities.

39. Draft Fracking Regulations Released For Delaware River Watershed
    11/30/2017

    Today residents and organizations from throughout the Delaware River Watershed and beyond are celebrating and vowing enthusiastic support for the proposed ban on high volume hydraulic fracturing throughout the Delaware River Watershed in all “hydrocarbon bearing rock formations”.

40. How Close Is Too Close For Hydraulic Fracturing?
    11/27/2017

    Although the majority of Americans get their drinking water from a municipal, public supply, 1 in 7 rely on private water wells. By Sarah Derouin